.help

183,837 domains as of 19 Sep 2026

Domains

183,837

19 Sep 2026

30-day change

▼ -11,751

-6.01%

Signed in root

✔ Yes

DS record present

Type

Generic

ASCII

Registrar figures are for May 2026. ICANN publishes monthly registry reports about three months in arrears, and they are the only source that attributes domains to registrars — zone files do not contain registrar information. Methodology.

Registry details

From the IANA Root Zone Database and RDAP bootstrap.

Registry operator: Innovation Service Ltd
Technical backend: CentralNic (Team Internet) via rdap host
Delegated: 16 Aug 2014
Nameservers: a.nic.help, b.nic.help, c.nic.help, d.nic.help
RDAP: https://rdap.centralnic.com/help
Zone data: CZDS access approved — counted daily

Do people keep it?

all renewal rates ›

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Of the 51,631 domains that came up for renewal between Jun 2025 and May 2026, the share renewed rather than deleted. How this is computed.

Keep rate

26.96%

below .com/.net/.org

Renewed

13,918

in twelve months

Deleted

37,713

in twelve months

For comparison, the median new gTLD keeps 68.45% and .com, .net and .org together keep 73.23%.

Registrar share

individual · combined

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Related accreditations combined into corporate families, folding 4 of the 133 reporting here. This grouping is our inference, not ICANN's.

219.49kreported May 2026

Share of .help by registrar
Porkbun LLC	104.91k	47.8%
NameSilo, LLC	39,778	18.12%
Namecheap2 accreditations	15,978	7.28%
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.	7,983	3.64%
Dynadot Inc	6,726	3.06%
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	6,103	2.78%
Key-Systems	5,731	2.61%
1API GmbH	4,542	2.07%
Devexpanse Ltd	4,001	1.82%
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn)2 accreditations	3,415	1.56%
Other123 more	20,324	9.26%

219,489 attributed to registrars in May 2026, against 183,837 in 19 Sep 2026’s zone — the zone is 35,652 smaller. The two are months apart, and a registry's own count also includes registrations that are not delegated in the zone. Why there are two clocks.

Domains by month, Aug 2014 – May 2026

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

From ICANN's monthly registry reports — the registry's own count, summed across registrars. This is the long history: it reaches back to delegation, where the daily series below can only start when this site began collecting zone files.

Aug 2014 – May 2026 1y 3y 5y 10y All

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Month	Domains	Change	Registrars	Net adds	Deletes
May 2026	219,489	▲ +15,378	155	30,798	5,842
Apr 2026	204,111	▲ +19,571	153	12,429	3,850
Mar 2026	184,540	▲ +15,061	151	23,219	4,781
Feb 2026	169,479	▲ +9,467	146	10,196	4,101
Jan 2026	160,012	▲ +7,257	144	11,581	4,029
Dec 2025	152,755	▲ +12,034	141	15,376	3,102
Nov 2025	140,721	▲ +9,189	141	11,106	3,356
Oct 2025	131,532	▲ +9,800	140	14,364	2,645
Sep 2025	121,732	▲ +9,426	140	8,147	1,794
Aug 2025	112,306	▲ +13,166	138	22,658	1,717
Jul 2025	99,140	▲ +21,546	138	15,574	1,354
Jun 2025	77,594	▲ +8,383	135	7,580	1,142
May 2025	69,211	▲ +8,029	133	8,590	2,198
Apr 2025	61,182	▲ +3,945	131	5,002	1,184
Mar 2025	57,237	▲ +11,855	129	6,896	1,494
Feb 2025	45,382	▲ +3,325	129	3,785	1,304
Jan 2025	42,057	▲ +1,859	129	3,008	1,189
Dec 2024	40,198	▲ +4,075	128	5,840	1,609
Nov 2024	36,123	▲ +2,730	126	2,846	984
Oct 2024	33,393	▲ +1,480	125	2,640	1,131
Sep 2024	31,913	▲ +2,419	122	2,913	945
Aug 2024	29,494	▲ +1,456	122	2,249	1,134
Jul 2024	28,038	▲ +165	122	1,086	955
Jun 2024	27,873	▲ +466	124	1,508	1,127
May 2024	27,407	▲ +22	122	1,009	1,038
Apr 2024	27,385	▼ -902	119	833	1,771
Mar 2024	28,287	▼ -527	119	921	1,427
Feb 2024	28,814	▼ -338	119	1,090	1,662
Jan 2024	29,152	▲ +255	119	883	651
Dec 2023	28,897	▲ +443	119	949	471
Nov 2023	28,454	▲ +801	118	1,162	380
Oct 2023	27,653	▲ +887	118	1,366	418
Sep 2023	26,766	▲ +819	118	1,083	497
Aug 2023	25,947	▲ +531	118	943	377
Jul 2023	25,416	▲ +342	115	762	487
Jun 2023	25,074	▲ +274	117	793	537
May 2023	24,800	▲ +376	114	1,234	14,217
Apr 2023	24,424	▲ +828	114	335	46,406
Mar 2023	23,596	▲ +633	113	977	408
Feb 2023	22,963	▲ +964	113	1,622	398
Jan 2023	21,999	▲ +879	112	1,511	652
Dec 2022	21,120	▲ +844	113	1,718	680
Nov 2022	20,276	▲ +570	113	765	708
Oct 2022	19,706	▲ +67	113	464	616
Sep 2022	19,639	▲ +9	113	376	420
Aug 2022	19,630	▲ +42	114	443	387
Jul 2022	19,588	▲ +34	115	484	405
Jun 2022	19,554	▼ -19	115	391	443
May 2022	19,573	▼ -123	115	410	476
Apr 2022	19,696	▲ +100	114	580	556
Mar 2022	19,596	▲ +59	114	636	497
Feb 2022	19,537	▲ +5	115	441	468
Jan 2022	19,532	▼ -68	116	365	600
Dec 2021	19,600	▲ +1	116	426	458
Nov 2021	19,599	▲ +313	116	762	421
Oct 2021	19,286	▲ +389	116	763	455
Sep 2021	18,897	▲ +206	115	667	386
Aug 2021	18,691	▲ +110	114	394	510
Jul 2021	18,581	▲ +106	114	383	375
Jun 2021	18,475	▲ +70	113	420	292
May 2021	18,405	▲ +293	113	555	372
Apr 2021	18,112	▲ +260	113	521	277
Mar 2021	17,852	▲ +440	111	674	248
Feb 2021	17,412	▲ +425	111	624	196
Jan 2021	16,987	▲ +358	111	605	302
Dec 2020	16,629	▲ +416	111	761	314
Nov 2020	16,213	▲ +414	108	618	327
Oct 2020	15,799	▲ +356	109	570	289
Sep 2020	15,443	▼ -1,517	109	560	278
Aug 2020	16,960	▲ +395	111	571	240
Jul 2020	16,565	▲ +444	110	717	240
Jun 2020	16,121	▲ +445	110	597	365
May 2020	15,676	▲ +193	110	437	385
Apr 2020	15,483	▲ +244	111	441	755
Mar 2020	15,239	▲ +206	110	404	304
Feb 2020	15,033	▲ +27	110	259	234
Jan 2020	15,006	▲ +66	110	207	283
Dec 2019	14,940	▼ -33	110	215	269
Nov 2019	14,973	▲ +41	110	270	271
Oct 2019	14,932	▼ -45	111	367	208
Sep 2019	14,977	▼ -2	110	367	297
Aug 2019	14,979	▼ -78	109	309	219
Jul 2019	15,057	▼ -101	108	250	213
Jun 2019	15,158	▼ -49	109	226	230
May 2019	15,207	▼ -112	110	314	267
Apr 2019	15,319	▼ -493	110	373	386
Mar 2019	15,812	▲ +459	109	855	415
Feb 2019	15,353	▲ +44	111	270	348
Jan 2019	15,309	▲ +11	109	286	389
Dec 2018	15,298	▼ -71	108	252	272
Nov 2018	15,369	▼ -195	105	220	542
Oct 2018	15,564	▼ -452	105	214	834
Sep 2018	16,016	▼ -367	106	188	386
Aug 2018	16,383	▼ -319	108	238	284
Jul 2018	16,702	▼ -1,065	108	265	290
Jun 2018	17,767	▼ -244	108	215	334
May 2018	18,011	▼ -276	108	280	450
Apr 2018	18,287	▼ -131	108	242	672
Mar 2018	18,418	▼ -117	108	372	558
Feb 2018	18,535	▼ -70	108	371	498
Jan 2018	18,605	▼ -269	107	301	1,377
Dec 2017	18,874	▼ -380	106	217	472
Nov 2017	19,254	▼ -321	105	224	556
Oct 2017	19,575	▼ -499	104	269	373
Sep 2017	20,074	▼ -2,775	105	291	488
Aug 2017	22,849	▼ -540	114	396	660
Jul 2017	23,389	▼ -18,340	114	315	9,153
Jun 2017	41,729	▼ -756	113	322	572
May 2017	42,485	▼ -875	113	377	600
Apr 2017	43,360	▼ -766	115	458	9
Mar 2017	44,126	▼ -196	113	712	3,098
Feb 2017	44,322	▲ +436	112	589	873
Jan 2017	43,886	▲ +168	112	568	10,006
Dec 2016	43,718	▲ +189	111	354	1,135
Nov 2016	43,529	▲ +276	110	446	1,224
Oct 2016	43,253	▼ -11,202	109	774	1,143
Sep 2016	54,455	▲ +190	107	505	12,507
Aug 2016	54,265	▲ +237	107	596	292
Jul 2016	54,028	▲ +250	105	758	441
Jun 2016	53,778	▲ +604	103	744	260
May 2016	53,174	▲ +832	103	838	184
Apr 2016	52,342	▲ +804	99	847	372
Mar 2016	51,538	▲ +3,216	100	3,670	22
Feb 2016	48,322	▲ +1,140	99	722	29
Jan 2016	47,182	▲ +10,994	97	11,031	41
Dec 2015	36,188	▲ +1,193	94	1,243	42
Nov 2015	34,995	▲ +1,597	93	1,592	9
Oct 2015	33,398	▲ +1,446	89	1,593	12
Sep 2015	31,952	▲ +2,405	87	2,302	14
Aug 2015	29,547	▲ +1,617	86	1,481	8
Jul 2015	27,930	▲ +534	83	524	12
Jun 2015	27,396	▲ +669	79	662	12
May 2015	26,727	▲ +415	79	447	8
Apr 2015	26,312	▲ +463	75	501	15
Mar 2015	25,849	▲ +3,140	73	3,167	14
Feb 2015	22,709	▲ +802	71	18,763	27
Jan 2015	21,907	▲ +18,704	67	703	25
Dec 2014	3,203	▲ +809	65	977	17
Nov 2014	2,394	▲ +2,299	61	2,016	6
Oct 2014	95	0	1	0	0
Sep 2014	95	0	1	90	0
Aug 2014	95	–	1	0	0

Showing all 142 months in this range. Show the latest 6.

Domains by day, 20 Aug 2026 – 19 Sep 2026

Source: Daily zone files

Counted from daily zone files. Names with at least one NS record or a DS record.

20 Aug 2026 – 19 Sep 2026 30d All

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Daily change

Source: Daily zone files

Day-over-day difference of the zone's name list, over the same window as the chart above.

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Dropped

Registrars

Registrar	Domains	Share	Net adds	Transfers in	Deletes
Porkbun LLC	104,908	47.8%	▲ +16,146	8	694
NameSilo, LLC	39,778	18.1%	▲ +3,972	0	2,270
NameCheap, Inc.	9,208	4.2%	▲ +500	2	428
Gname.com Pte. Ltd.	7,983	3.6%	▲ +1,247	0	97
Spaceship, Inc.	6,770	3.1%	▲ +4,110	3	138
Dynadot Inc	6,726	3.1%	▲ +1,849	1	1,295
Reserved for non-billable transactions where Registry Operator acts as Registrar	6,103	2.8%	0	0	3
Key-Systems, LLC	5,731	2.6%	▲ +377	6	16
1API GmbH	4,542	2.1%	0	0	171
Devexpanse Ltd	4,001	1.8%	▲ +165	1	0
Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn)	2,671	1.2%	▲ +1,032	0	0
Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc	2,255	1%	0	0	153
Chengdu West Dimension Digital Technology Co., Ltd.	1,930	0.9%	▲ +541	0	0
HOSTINGER operations, UAB	1,899	0.9%	▲ +75	1	90
Global Domain Group LLC	1,187	0.5%	▲ +197	0	50
GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com	944	0.4%	▲ +20	0	43
Gandi SAS	836	0.4%	▲ +12	0	8
Dominet (HK) Limited	744	0.3%	0	0	6
Cloudflare, Inc.	600	0.3%	▲ +85	9	3
Network Solutions, LLC	579	0.3%	▲ +7	1	7
Tucows Domains Inc.	563	0.3%	▲ +3	0	10
eNom, LLC	486	0.2%	▲ +1	0	14
MarkMonitor Inc.	482	0.2%	▲ +2	0	0
URL Solutions, Inc.	448	0.2%	0	0	23
Amazon Registrar, Inc.	438	0.2%	▲ +30	2	6
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.	431	0.2%	▲ +1	10	0
Name.com, Inc.	431	0.2%	▲ +81	0	133
Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC	424	0.2%	▲ +16	1	22
Sav.com, LLC	372	0.2%	▲ +61	0	69
united-domains GmbH	369	0.2%	▲ +1	0	1
Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE	349	0.2%	▲ +1	0	2
NameMart Pte. Ltd.	341	0.2%	▲ +157	0	0
IONOS SE	339	0.2%	▲ +2	1	5
DNC Holdings, Inc.	290	0.1%	▲ +1	0	9
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	287	0.1%	▲ +9	0	5
NicNames, Inc.	248	0.1%	0	0	2
101domain GRS Limited	239	0.1%	▲ +1	0	1
InterNetX GmbH	218	0.1%	▲ +2	0	1
OVH sas	218	0.1%	▲ +3	0	4
Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu	181	0.1%	▲ +1	0	0
West263 International Limited	159	0.1%	0	0	0
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER	155	0.1%	0	0	10
Automattic Inc.	146	0.1%	▲ +2	0	1
Cronon GmbH	140	0.1%	0	0	5
NETIM SAS	137	0.1%	▲ +16	1	0
Gransy, s.r.o.	121	0.1%	▲ +1	0	1
Ledl.net GmbH & Co KG	107	0%	0	0	2
OwnRegistrar, Inc.	105	0%	▲ +7	0	3
GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC	101	0%	0	1	0
Realtime Register B.V.	94	0%	0	18	0
CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH d/b/a joker.com	91	0%	▲ +5	0	6
Ascio Technologies, Inc. Danmark - Filial af Ascio technologies, Inc. USA	90	0%	▲ +2	1	1
MAT BAO CORPORATION	84	0%	▲ +5	0	10
Register.com - Network Solutions, LLC	80	0%	0	0	0
INWX GmbH	79	0%	0	0	1
Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd	63	0%	▲ +1	1	0
Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd	62	0%	0	0	1
Super Registry Ltd	59	0%	0	0	0
10dencehispahard SLU	59	0%	▲ +1	0	9
Safenames Ltd	57	0%	0	0	2
EuroDNS S.A.	53	0%	0	0	1
İsimtescil Bilişim A.Ş.	51	0%	0	0	0
Vautron Rechenzentrum AG	42	0%	0	0	0
Lexsynergy Limited	37	0%	0	0	0
RegistrarSEC LLC	37	0%	0	0	0
XServer, Inc.	34	0%	▲ +1	0	0
Epik LLC	33	0%	0	0	0
Name SRS AB	31	0%	0	0	0
http.net Internet GmbH	28	0%	0	0	1
Easyspace Limited	27	0%	0	0	0
One.com A/S	26	0%	0	0	1
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd.	25	0%	0	0	2
NameWeb BVBA	25	0%	0	0	0
Diamatrix C.C.	21	0%	0	0	0
Domeneshop AS dba domainnameshop.com	20	0%	▲ +1	0	0
Abion AB	19	0%	▲ +2	0	0
NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED	19	0%	▲ +3	0	0
Webnames.ca Inc.	18	0%	0	0	0
Squarespace Domains II LLC	17	0%	▲ +10	0	0
Nameshield SAS	17	0%	0	0	0
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd.	17	0%	0	0	0
BB-Online UK Limited	16	0%	▲ +2	0	0
Marcaria International LLC	16	0%	0	0	0
Global Domains International, Inc. DBA DomainCostClub.com	16	0%	0	0	0
Infomaniak Network SA	16	0%	▲ +1	1	0
TLD Registrar Solutions Ltd.	15	0%	▲ +2	0	0
COREhub, S.R.L.	14	0%	0	0	0
Fewmoretaps OU d/b/a Trustname.com	14	0%	▲ +13	0	0
Xin Net Technology Corporation	13	0%	0	0	0
July Name Limited	13	0%	0	0	0
Mesh Digital Limited	12	0%	0	0	0
ZDNS Innovate International Limited	12	0%	0	0	0
Nombre Ltd	12	0%	▲ +3	0	0
Reliable Software	10	0%	0	0	0
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL	9	0%	▲ +1	0	0
Gabia, Inc.	8	0%	0	0	0
Hefei Juming Network Technology Co., Ltd	8	0%	0	0	0
Whois Corp.	7	0%	0	0	0
Megazone Corp., dba HOSTING.KR	7	0%	▲ +4	0	5
Quantum Names LLC	6	0%	0	0	0

Registry activity

Source: ICANN monthly registry reports

Query volumes and EPP operations reported monthly by the registry. The only public signal of how much a TLD is actually resolved rather than merely registered.

Month	Operational registrars	DNS queries (UDP)	Creates	Deletes	Renews	Transfers approved	Rejected
Jan 2018	194	70.19M	32	41	109	–	–
Dec 2017	195	73.20M	40	66	52	–	–
Nov 2017	193	64.01M	38	33	39	–	–
Oct 2017	191	37.29M	37	43	38	–	–
Sep 2017	191	21.92M	28	36	65	–	–
Aug 2017	189	35.84M	51	60	41	–	–
Jul 2017	186	33.60M	38	398	42	–	–
Jun 2017	185	29.42M	51	51	40	–	–
May 2017	0	30.94M	39	60	54	–	–
Apr 2017	0	30.30M	47	173	70	–	–
Mar 2017	0	90.06M	50	39	412	–	–
Feb 2017	0	166.07M	72	34	198	–	–
Jan 2017	0	188.82M	47	44	106	–	–
Dec 2016	181	172.07M	47	60	33	–	–
Nov 2016	181	129.69B	432	1,224	473	–	–
Oct 2016	178	79.55B	766	1,143	1,948	–	–
Sep 2016	178	39.88B	561	12,507	319	–	–
Aug 2016	178	7.42B	485	292	293	–	–
Jul 2016	176	4.61B	859	441	186	–	–
Jun 2016	175	1.43B	757	260	159	–	–
May 2016	174	2.08B	870	184	121	–	–
Apr 2016	173	1.48B	831	371	152	–	–
Mar 2016	169	207.21M	3,228	369	190	–	–
Feb 2016	165	377.92M	1,196	230	2,498	–	–
Jan 2016	163	0	11,064	619	18,256	–	–
Dec 2015	163	0	1,239	83	243	–	–
Nov 2015	159	14.86M	1,617	34	15,969	–	–
Oct 2015	157	159.50M	1,460	22	556	–	–
Sep 2015	154	959.41M	2,423	29	84	–	–
Aug 2015	151	85.58M	1,633	9	11	–	–
Jul 2015	147	84.33M	551	41	28	–	–
Jun 2015	145	60.05M	681	16	16	–	–
May 2015	141	59.31M	425	19	2,419	–	–
Apr 2015	138	63.53M	478	0	53,984	–	–
Mar 2015	133	69.52M	3,154	0	4,731	–	–
Feb 2015	130	44.48M	830	0	4,046	–	–
Jan 2015	128	34.92M	18,729	0	822	–	–
Dec 2014	126	35.29M	825	0	354	–	–
Nov 2014	123	16.02M	2,305	0	154	–	–
Oct 2014	114	3.92M	0	0	156	–	–
Sep 2014	106	7.18M	0	0	149	–	–
Aug 2014	97	5.11M	90	0	90	–	–

Data currency. Domain counts on this page are from zone files dated 19 September 2026 and refresh daily. Registrar figures are from ICANN's monthly registry reports for May 2026, which ICANN publishes about three months in arrears; zone files contain no registrar information, so no fresher source exists. Full detail on methodology and live pipeline status.